Prince Sultan ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Saʿud

Prince Sultan ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Saʿud,
(born 1930/31?, Riyadh, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]—died Oct. 22, 2011, New York, N.Y.), Saudi Arabian royal political figure who held a variety of cabinet posts from 1953 under a succession of Saudi kings, but it was in his role as defense minister (from 1962) that he became known as a staunch supporter of Saudi ties with the U.S. and the U.K., with which he famously negotiated a series of deals to purchase British military aircraft. Sultan was reportedly the 15th or 16th son of modern Saudi Arabia’s founder, King Ibn Saʿud, and was one of seven full brothers (the ... (100 of 223 words)